1650 Scottish Psalter (Lining Out of The Psalms)

21  With whom my hand shall stablished be; mine arm shall make him strong. 22  On him the foe shall not exact, nor son of mischief wrong. 23  I will beat down before his face all his malicious foes; I will them greatly plague who do with hatred him oppose. 24  My mercy and my faithfulness with him yet still shall be; And in my name his horn and pow’r men shall exalted see. 25  His hand and pow’r s...

1  God’s mercies I will ever sing; and with my mouth I shall Thy faithfulness make to be known to generations all. 2  For mercy shall be built, said I, for ever to endure; Thy faithfulness, ev’n in the heav’ns, thou wilt establish sure. 3  I with my chosen One have made a cov’nant graciously; And to my servant, whom I loved, to David sworn have I; 4  That I thy seed establish shall for ever to rem...

1  Lord God, my Savior, day and night before thee cried have I. 2  Before thee let my prayer come; give ear unto my cry. 3  For troubles great do fill my soul; my life draws nigh the grave. 4  I’m counted with those that go down to pit, and no strength have. 5  Ev’n free among the dead, like them that slain in grave do lie; Cut off from thy hand, whom no more thou hast in memory. 6  Thou hast me l...

1  Upon the hills of holiness he his foundation sets. 2  God, more than Jacob’s dwellings all, delights in Zion’s gates. 3  Things glorious are said of thee, thou city of the Lord. 4  Rahab and Babel I, to those that know me, will record: Behold ev’n Tyrus, and with it the land of Palestine, And likewise Ethiopia; this man was born therein. 5  And it of Zion shall be said, This man and that man th...

1  How lovely is thy dwelling-place, O Lord of hosts, to me! The tabernacles of thy grace how pleasant, Lord, they be! 2  My thirsty soul longs veh’mently, yea faints, thy courts to see: My very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee. 3  Behold, the sparrow findeth out an house wherein to rest; The swallow also for herself hath purchased a nest; Ev’n thine own altars,* where she safe her...

1  Keep not, O God, we thee entreat, O keep not silence now: Do thou not hold thy peace, O God, and still no more be thou. 2  For, lo, thine enemies a noise tumultuously have made; And they that haters are of thee have lifted up the head. 3  Against thy chosen people they do crafty counsel take; And they against thy hidden ones do consultations make. 4  Come, let us cut them off, said they, from b...

1  In gods’ assembly God doth stand; he judgeth gods among. 2  How long, accepting persons vile, will ye give judgment wrong? 3  Defend the poor and fatherless; to poor oppressed do right. 4  The poor and needy ones set free; rid them from ill men’s might. 5  They know not, nor will understand; in darkness they walk on: All the foundations of the earth out of their course are gone. 6  I said that...

9  In midst of thee there shall not be any strange god at all; Nor unto any god unknown thou bowing down shalt fall. 10  I am the Lord thy God, which did from Egypt land thee guide; I’ll fill thy mouth abundantly, do thou it open wide. 11  But yet my people to my voice would not attentive be; And ev’n my chosen Israel he would have none of me. 12  So to the lust of their own hearts I them delivere...

1  O God, the heathen entered have thine heritage; by them Defiled is thy house: on heaps they laid Jerusalem. 2  The bodies of thy servants they have cast forth to be meat To rav’nous fowls; thy dear saints’ flesh they gave to beasts to eat. 3  Their blood about Jerusalem like water they have shed; And there was none to bury them when they were slain and dead. 4  Unto our neighbors a reproach mos...

20  Behold, he smote the rock, and thence came streams and waters great; But can he give his people bread? and send them flesh to eat? 21  The Lord did hear, and waxed wroth; so kindled was a flame ‘Gainst Jacob, and ‘gainst Israel up indignation came. 22  For they believed not God, nor trust in his salvation had; 23  Though clouds above he did command, and heav’n’s doors open made, 24  And manna...

1  Attend, my people, to my law; thereto give thou an ear; The words that from my mouth proceed attentively do hear. 2  My mouth shall speak a parable, and sayings dark of old; 3  The same which we have heard and known, and us our fathers told. 4  We also will them not conceal from their posterity; Them to the generation to come declare will we: The praises of the Lord our God, and his almighty st...

1  Unto the Lord I with my voice, I unto God did cry; Ev’n with my voice, and unto me his ear he did apply. 2  I in my trouble sought the Lord, my sore by night did run, And ceased not; my grieved soul did consolation shun. 3  I to remembrance God did call, yet trouble did remain; And overwhelm’d my spirit was, whilst I did sore complain. 4  Mine eyes, debarred from rest and sleep, thou makest sti...

1  In Judah’s land God is well known, his name’s in Isr’el great: 2  In Salem is his tabernacle, in Zion is his seat. 3  There arrows of the bow he brake, the shield, the sword, the war. 4  More glorious thou than hills of prey, more excellent art far. 5  Those that were stout of heart are spoiled, they slept their sleep outright; And none of those their hands did find, that were the men of might....

12  For certainly God is my King, ev’n from the times of old, Working in midst of all the earth salvation manifold. 13  The sea, by thy great pow’r, to part asunder thou didst make; And thou the dragons’ heads, O Lord, within the waters brake. 14  The leviathan’s head thou brak’st in pieces, and didst give Him to be meat unto the folk in wilderness that live. 15  Thou clav’st the fountain and the...

1  O God, why hast thou cast us off? is it for evermore? Against thy pasture-sheep why doth thine anger smoke so sore? 2  O call to thy rememberance thy congregation, Which thou hast purchased of old; still think the same upon: The rod of thine inheritance, which thou redeemed hast, This Zion hill, wherein thou hadst thy dwelling in times past. 3  To these long desolations thy feet lift, do not ta...

15  If in this manner foolishly to speak I would intend, Thy children’s generation, behold, I should offend. 16  When I this thought to know, it was too hard a thing for me; 17  Till to God’s sanctuary I went, then I their end did see. 18  Assuredly thou didst them set a slipp’ry place upon; Them suddenly thou castedst down into destruction. 19  How in a moment suddenly to ruin brought are they! W...

1  Yet God is good to Israel, to each pure-hearted one. 2  But as for me, my steps near slipped, my feet were almost gone. 3  For I envious was, and grudged the foolish folk to see, When I perceived the wicked sort enjoy prosperity. 4  For still their strength continueth firm; their death of bands is free. 5  They are not toiled like other men, nor plagued, as others be. 6  Therefore their pride,...

1  O Lord, my hope and confidence is placed in thee alone; Then let thy servant never be put to confusion. 2  And let me, in thy righteousness, from thee deliv’rance have; Cause me escape, incline thine ear unto me, and me save. 3  Be thou my dwelling-rock, to which I ever may resort: Thou gav’st commandment me to save, for thou’rt my rock and fort. 4  Free me, my God, from wicked hands, hands cru...

1  Make haste, O God, me to preserve; with speed, Lord, succor me. 2  Let them that for my soul do seek shamed and confounded be: Let them be turned back, and shamed, that in my hurt delight. 3  Turned back be they, Ha, ha! that say, their shaming to requite. 4  O Lord, in thee let all be glad, and joy that seek for thee: Let them who thy salvation love say still, God praised be. 5  But I both poo...

1  Lord, haste me to deliver; with speed, Lord, succor me. 2  Let them that for my soul do seek shamed and confounded be: Turned back be they, and shamed, that in my hurt delight. 3  Turned back be they, Ha, ha! that say, their shaming to requite. 4  In thee let all be glad, and joy that seek for thee: Let them who thy salvation love say still, God praised be. 5  I poor and needy am; come, Lord, a...

1  Save me, O God, because the floods do so environ me, That ev’n unto my very soul come in the waters be. 2  I downward in deep mire do sink, where standing there is none: I am into deep waters come, where floods have o’er me gone. 3  I weary with my crying am, my throat is also dried; Mine eyes do fail, while for my God I waiting do abide. 4  Those men that do without a cause bear hatred unto me...

11  The Lord himself did give the word, the word abroad did spread; Great was the company of them the same who published. 12  Kings of great armies foiled were, and forced to flee away; And women, who remained at home, did distribute the prey. 13  Though ye have lien among the pots, like doves ye shall appear, Whose wings with silver, and with gold whose feathers covered are. 14  When there th’ Al...

1  Let God arise, and scattered let all his en’mies be; And let all those that do him hate before his presence flee. 2  As smoke is driv’n, so drive thou them; as fire melts wax away, Before God’s face let wicked men so perish and decay. 3  But let the righteous be glad: let them before God’s sight Be very joyful; yea, let them rejoice with all their might. 4  To God sing, to his name sing praise;...

1  All lands to God in joyful sounds, aloft your voices raise. 2  Sing forth the honor of his name, and glorious make his praise. 3  Say unto God, How terrible in all thy works art thou! Through thy great pow’r thy foes to thee shall be constrained to bow. 4  All on the earth shall worship thee, they shall thy praise proclaim In songs: they shall sing cheerfully unto thy holy name. 5  Come, and th...

1  Praise waits for thee in Zion, Lord: to thee vows paid shall be. 2  O thou that hearer art of pray’r, all flesh shall come to thee. 3  Iniquities, I must confess, prevail against me do: But as for our transgressions, them purge away shalt thou. 4  Blessed is the man whom thou dost choose, and mak’st approach to thee, That he within thy courts, O Lord, may still a dweller be: We surely shall be...